Caithness
15+ Year Contributor
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- Nov 2, 2003
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Tampa,
Florida
It was a frustrating night with a lot of breakage at Bradenton Motorsports Park, including one engine blow/wall tap that shut the track down for an hour and a half. I only managed to get two runs in, but on the second run I set a new personal best of [email protected] on the 14b.
I got there late because prepping for the track took longer than I thought it would. After filling up with 110, lowering tire pressure, taking out the passenger headlight, leaning out AFR and raising boost I got in line for my first run. With just a few cars left before it was my turn to run the aforementioned crash shut the track down from 8:00 until almost 9:30. I had set up a race with the guy behind me in an FP3052 95 GST, but when traffic started moving and I got up there the track officials waved me in with Joe in Project Goodwill. I promptly waited too long and blew my r/t, and released the clutch too quickly and blew my launch- not that it mattered running against that beast of a car.
After getting a good view of what a low 10 second car looks like as it puts 5 buslengths on you, I got back in line and added a few degrees of timing in for a peak of 23 degrees. I lined up against some old Saturn but as we were pulling up to the line, a 2g GST snapped an axle on the line. Fortunately cleanup for this breakage only took a few minutes. The Saturn rushed right to the second staging light before I could even get through the cones, no courtesy staging here. I prestaged, bumped the stutter, bumped the clutch out to stage, and then went WOT on the 5k rpm stutter. And stayed that way as I waited, and waited, and waited for the tree to flash down. For some reason the guy running the tree decided to make me sit on my 2 step for a good 15 seconds before he decided to press the button to start the race
. When the tree finally flashed down I came out of the hole hard, slipping the clutch out properly, and as I banged it into second I knew the run was made. Pulling up to the timeslip shed with the Saturn presumably somewhere past the 1/8th mile marker I was elated to see a new personal best by almost four tenths. It really made all of the frustration of the night just fade away.
In the second run I determined that cranking the boost controller down had only resulted in 21 psi boost, so my friend Kris cranked it down until it couldn't go down any farther and I added in timing to a peak of 26 degrees. I was ready to go better my time but yet another car broke at the top end of the track and the event was over early. I fully intend to go back to the track in three weeks and try for an even better time on the 14b before switching to an Evo 16g. I'm going to try to get a drag bucket to drop another 30 pounds to go along with open wastegate and a higher 2-step rpm. In the mean time, I should have video of my two runs up sometime tomorrow.
I got there late because prepping for the track took longer than I thought it would. After filling up with 110, lowering tire pressure, taking out the passenger headlight, leaning out AFR and raising boost I got in line for my first run. With just a few cars left before it was my turn to run the aforementioned crash shut the track down from 8:00 until almost 9:30. I had set up a race with the guy behind me in an FP3052 95 GST, but when traffic started moving and I got up there the track officials waved me in with Joe in Project Goodwill. I promptly waited too long and blew my r/t, and released the clutch too quickly and blew my launch- not that it mattered running against that beast of a car.
After getting a good view of what a low 10 second car looks like as it puts 5 buslengths on you, I got back in line and added a few degrees of timing in for a peak of 23 degrees. I lined up against some old Saturn but as we were pulling up to the line, a 2g GST snapped an axle on the line. Fortunately cleanup for this breakage only took a few minutes. The Saturn rushed right to the second staging light before I could even get through the cones, no courtesy staging here. I prestaged, bumped the stutter, bumped the clutch out to stage, and then went WOT on the 5k rpm stutter. And stayed that way as I waited, and waited, and waited for the tree to flash down. For some reason the guy running the tree decided to make me sit on my 2 step for a good 15 seconds before he decided to press the button to start the race
. When the tree finally flashed down I came out of the hole hard, slipping the clutch out properly, and as I banged it into second I knew the run was made. Pulling up to the timeslip shed with the Saturn presumably somewhere past the 1/8th mile marker I was elated to see a new personal best by almost four tenths. It really made all of the frustration of the night just fade away.In the second run I determined that cranking the boost controller down had only resulted in 21 psi boost, so my friend Kris cranked it down until it couldn't go down any farther and I added in timing to a peak of 26 degrees. I was ready to go better my time but yet another car broke at the top end of the track and the event was over early. I fully intend to go back to the track in three weeks and try for an even better time on the 14b before switching to an Evo 16g. I'm going to try to get a drag bucket to drop another 30 pounds to go along with open wastegate and a higher 2-step rpm. In the mean time, I should have video of my two runs up sometime tomorrow.
"You know... Stock turbo and some mods..." hahaha!
and I had no AFC to pull fuel! They were as bent as I was!! Ha! You guys are gonna make me do cams!!! Cut it out!
